Solas finds genuinely positive stories about the things you care about — then lets you explore them with ChatGPT. Ask questions, dig deeper, and remember that the world is still making progress.
Issue · monday 1 june
A self-taught immunologist endured 200 venomous bites over 20 years. Researchers studying his blood have isolated antibodies that neutralise multiple snake species at once — a step toward a universal antivenom.
How it works
Every day, Solas reads hundreds of articles from trusted publishers and scores them for genuine positivity. Clickbait and disguised bad news don’t make it through.
Ask ChatGPT for good news about the topics you care about — science, health, environment, community or technology — and Solas surfaces today’s best.
Curious why a story matters? Ask ChatGPT to explain it. Solas breaks down the real-world impact so you get the full picture, not just the headline.
Sample stories
These are real stories Solas has surfaced recently. In ChatGPT, you can tap any card and ask questions — why does this matter?, who benefits?, what happens next?
Marine biologists have found a healthy coral reef system off Papua New Guinea in waters that fall well below the pH threshold most reef species are thought to tolerate. Some of the corals appear to be a previously undescribed adaptation.
Paris has spent a decade reclaiming road space from cars. Cycling is now up over 70% in the city centre, air pollution has dropped measurably, and entire boulevards have been reopened to pedestrians. It's becoming a template other European cities are following.
Researchers have for the first time directly observed the catalytic process that splits water molecules into hydrogen using only sunlight, opening a path to dramatically more efficient solar-to-hydrogen fuel cells.
A point-of-care diagnostic developed by a UK university spinout returns urinary tract infection results in under fifteen minutes, removing the multi-day lab turnaround that often leads to overprescription of broad-spectrum antibiotics.
Topics covered
Tell ChatGPT what interests you and Solas finds stories to match. More topics coming soon.
About
Great things are happening every day — scientific breakthroughs, communities coming together, real progress on hard problems — but those stories get buried under outrage and noise. Solas was built to surface them.
It works inside ChatGPT. Ask for good news about the topics you care about, and Solas finds today’s best stories from trusted publishers. Want to understand why something matters? Just ask. ChatGPT breaks down the real-world impact so you get more than a headline.
It’s free, it doesn’t collect personal data, and the only goal is to remind you that the world is still making progress. If it brightens the occasional morning, that’s the whole point.
“The world is making more progress than the news cycle lets you see. Solas is a small window onto the parts that are working.”